Professor Brian Rappert
Publications
Books
How to Look Good in War, London, Pluto Press, 2012. Publisher Website
Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences: Strengthening the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, Canberra, Australian National University Press, 2011.
Experimental Secrets: International Security, Codes, and the Future of Research, University Press of America, 2009.
with C Gould, Biosecurity: Origins, Transformations, Practices, London, Palgrave, 2009.
Biotechnology, Security and the Search for the Limits: An Inquiry into Research and Methods, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Rappert B (eds) Technology and Security, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Publisher Website
with C McLeish, A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Governance of Research, London, Earthscan, 2007. Full Article Publisher Website
Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion and the Prohibition of Inhumanity, Routledge, 2006.
Non-Lethal Weapons as Legitimizing Forces?: Technology, Politics and the Management of Conflict, Frank Cass, 2003.
with N Brown, A Webster, Contested Futures, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000.
Chapters
"Pacing Science and Technology with Codes of Conduct", in Marchant GE,Allenby BR,Herkert JR (eds) The Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversight, , 2011
"Statecrafting Ignorance: Strategies for Managing Burdens, Secrecy, and Conflict", in Maret S (eds) Government Secrecy, Emerald Group Publishing, 2011, 301-324
Making Silences Matter, in The Way of Ethnography, American Anthropological Association, 2010, 260-273
Introduction, in Rappert EBB (eds) Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences: Strengthening the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, Canberra: Australia National University Press, 2010, 3-31
Introduction, in Rappert B,Gould C (eds) Biosecurity, London: Palgrave, 2009
with B Balmer, J Stone, Science, Technology and the Military: Priorities, Preoccupations and Possibilities, in The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, London: MIT Press, 2008
Police Use of Force, in Newburn T,Neyroud P (eds) Dictionary of Policing, London: Willan, 2008
with D Feakes, C McLeish, Introduction, in A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Future Governance of Research, London: Earthscan, 2007
with S Croft, Introduction, in Rappert B (eds) Technology and Security, London: Palgrave MacMillian, 2007
with B Balmer, Rethinking “Secrecy” and “Disclosure”: What Science and Technology Studies Can Offer Attempts to Governing WMD Threats, in Rappert B (eds) Technology and Security, London: Palgrave, 2007
Education for the Life Sciences, in Rappert B,McLeish C (eds) A Web of Prevention: Biological Weapons, Life Sciences and the Future Governance of Research, London: Earthscan, 2007
National Security, Terrorism & the Control of Life Science Research, in James A (eds) Science and Technology Policies for the Anti Terrorism Era, Oxford: IOS Press, 2006
Tasers in the UK Police’, in Lewer N (eds) Non-Lethal Weapons: Developments and Deployments, London: Routledge, 2005
with D Charles, A Webster, 'Controlling Intellectual Property across the High-Tech Frontier, in Blackburn R (eds) Intellectual Property and Small Firms, London: Routledge, 2003
Towards an Understanding of Nonlethality, in Lewer N (eds) Non-Lethal Weapons, London: Frank Cass, 2002
with L Bezuidenhout, Conclusion, in Rappert EBB (eds) Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences: Strengthening the Prohibition of Biological Weapons, Canberra: Australia National University Press, 215-222
Journal articles
A teachable moment for biological weapons: The Seventh BWC Review Conference and the need for international cooperation in education, B ATOM SCI, vol. 67, no. 3, 2011, 44-50 DOI
'The Language of Judgement, Spin, and Accountability', Journal of Language and Politics, vol. 10, no. 2, 2011
The Language of Judgement, Spin, and Accountability, Journal of Language and Politics, vol. 10, 2011, 182-203
Evidencing similarity The language of judgement, spin, and accountability, J LANG POLIT, vol. 10, no. 2, 2011, 182-203 DOI
with R Moyes, 'Enhancing the Protection of Civilians from Armed Conflict: Precautionary Lessons', Medicine, Conflict & Survival, vol. 26, no. 1, 2010, 24-47
Revealing and Concealing Secrets in Research: The Potential for the Absent, Qualitative Research, vol. 10, no. 1, 2010, 571-588
with R Moyes, Enhancing the protection of civilians from armed conflict: precautionary lessons, Medicine, Conflict & Survival, vol. 26, no. 1, 2010, 24-47
with R Moyes, The Prohibition of Cluster Munitions: Setting International Precedents for Defining Inhumanity, Non-Proliferation Review, vol. July, 2009
with C Gould, The Challenges of Science and Security', Politeia, vol. 28, no. 2, 2009
Defining the Emerging Concern with Biosecurity, Japan Journal for Science, Technology and Society, vol. 17, 2008, 95-116
The Benefits, Risks, and Threats of Biotechnology February, Science & Public Policy, vol. 35, no. 1, 2008, 37-44
On the mid range - An exercise in disposing (or minding the gaps), SCI TECHNOL HUM VAL, vol. 32, no. 6, 2007, 693-712 DOI
Codes of conduct and biological weapons: an in-process assessment., Biosecur Bioterror, vol. 5, no. 2, 2007, 145-154 DOI
Policing & the Use of Force, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, vol. 1, no. 4, 2007, 472-484
Prohibitions, Weapons and Controversy: Managing the Problem of Ordering, Social Studies of Science, vol. 35, no. 2, 2005, 211-240 DOI
Scenarios on the Future of Non-lethal Weapons, Contemporary Security Policy, vol. 22, no. 1, 2001, 50-74
Revealing and Concealing Secrets in Research: The Potential for the Absent, Qualitative Research, vol. 10, no. 5, 571-587
